[Info-vax] Should VSI create a modern day VMS applications book ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/22/2018 10:40 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 8/22/2018 10:20 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 8/22/2018 12:21 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>> On 8/21/2018 10:41 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> But the companies that can change make money and those
>>>> that are stuck in the old ways goes bankrupt.
>>>
>>> Ah, citation, please?  That's a rather interesting statement.  Not
>>> sure I'm believing it.
>>
>> Kodak believed in real film not digital images.
> 
> That's not "old ways", that's displaced product.  I seem to recall some 
> Kodak digital cameras.  Perhaps it was the ultra cheap products from 
> China and such that did in Kodak?
> 
>> DEC believed in mini-computers not Unix and PC's.
> 
> DEC sold microCPU based systems.  C-VAX, N-VAX, Alpha, etc.
> DEC sold PCs.
> Unix sucks.
> 
> Yes, it was the "old ways" that caused DEC's decline.  One of the 
> biggest problems was the huge service organization and other such.  When 
> computers sold for big bucks, there was funds for the overhead.  That 
> definitely changed.

The specifics vary a lot.

Staying with old products too long, staying with old price model
too long, staying with old sales model too long, staying with old
production too long (resulting in too high cost and/or too long time
to deliver) etc..

But if the market change and the competitors change and you don't change
then you have a problem.

Arne